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Cover: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Transgenic Cyborg, 1998. Courtesy the artist and Hoffman Donahue Gallery, NYC/LA.
Summer 2026
Volume 114, No. 2
Summer 2026
The Yale Review
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
AI and the Future of Writing
A roundtable of authors discuss the ramifications for art—and life.
June 8, 2026
How LLMs Set My Fiction Free
Writing no longer felt like experimenting. AI made it fun again.
June 8, 2026
Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?
Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new.
June 8, 2026
Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text
How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
June 8, 2026
The Birthday Party No One Wants
Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial
June 8, 2026
Donna Haraway’s Utopian Promise
We were supposed to become feminist cyborgs. Instead, we got ChatGPT.
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Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?
Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new.